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The U.S. needs to add about 50,000 jobs a month, economists estimate, to keep the jobless rate at or close to its current rate of 4.2%.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 3, 2026

By one estimate, the global scent-marketing business now adds up to $4.1 billion yearly.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

An international team modeled roughly 1,000 years of earthquake activity along the southern San Andreas and San Jacinto fault systems to estimate the amount of stress currently concentrated around Cajon Pass.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026

In his post-IPO estimate of SpaceX’s value, New York University’s Aswath Damodaran wrote that “the estimation of TAM has been gamified by Silicon Valley, with bloated and patently unreachable numbers.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

She had not set off any alarm bells when Zeitoun had provided an estimate and begun work on painting her stairway and guest bedroom.

From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers

Despite years of clinical guidance, estimates of hypertension awareness, treatment, and control in England have shown little improvement in recent decades.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026

Meanwhile consumer prices rose in September by 0.53%, or four times as fast as earnings, according to the latest estimates from the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026

The bank estimates that exports of refined products such as gasoline, diesel and jet fuel from the region still remain around 40% below prewar levels.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

By its own estimates, it controls around half of the U.S. frozen single-serve meal market when measured by volume, or the amount of items sold.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026

Mario Campos Gutierrez, supervisor of Grupo Beta Sur, estimates that half eventually get here—after repeated attempts.

From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario

An estimated 10,000 to 20,000 people are diagnosed with the disease in the United States each year.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026

Kyiv's current population is estimated to be about three million, and many residents rely heavily on the city's metro network.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

But drought, pesticides and habitat destruction triggered an unprecedented collapse that began in 2017, eventually wiping out an estimated 99.5 percent of the Bogong moth population.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

Combined, revisions trimmed 60,000 jobs from the previously estimated tally for July and August.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

Records show that by the time of the American Revolution, an estimated 5 percent of Virginia’s enslaved population—totaling some 210,000 people in 1776—was considered mulatto.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis

However, estimating the current scale of SpaceX’s computing business can be difficult.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026

He points to research estimating the environmental impact of cellulosic microfibers as one to two orders of magnitude lower than that of synthetic fibers, largely because they degrade faster.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

Even there, the population is small, with the most recent survey estimating just 140 mature individuals.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026

“We really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans!” he wrote on X, estimating that there is a greater than 10% chance of human extinction from AI within the next decade.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

I wasn’t sure how many there had been, and I thought that Gearhart was only estimating.

From "Fallen Angels" by Walter Dean Myers